action-hero

Wolf Hadda as a character seems to owe equal inspiration to the Brothers Grimm, Thomas Hardy and, given his action-hero agility, Stan Lee.

The Spy Tale as Rugged Romance Tom Nolan 2011

So far, she hasn't been asked to show off any action-hero skills, although she once had to hold a gun.

Larisa Oleynik Is Open to a Hawaii Five-0 Romance With McGarrett 2011

The themes of the show share some DNA with Gordon's background on 24, but fellow executive producer Alex Gansa said the show benefits from being 10 years removed from the terrorist attacks. "24 existed in a real, post-9/11 world and Jack Bauer was the action-hero response to that," Gansa.

Showtime's Homeland Is a Post-9/11 Drama, But Don't Expect Jack Bauer 2011

The hook on this thriller is that the action-hero main character is in a wheelchair.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway alecaustin 2009

But in the meantime Disney has launched its boy-themed Disney XD channel and purchased the action-hero heavy Marvel Entertainment.

Toys Take a Star Turn Ann Zimmerman 2010

It was all very po mo, but Van Damme's standing in the action-hero community took a massive hit.

The Hard Sell: Coors Light 2011

Holmes and Tintin, evidently more wintry figures, seem destined, or doomed, to be reconfigured as superheroes by default, or perhaps just as Ethan Hunt-style action-hero exaggerations of themselves.

Sherlock Holmes is back … again 2011

The film -- which features a crew of such aging action-hero actors as Jason Statham, Steve Austin, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger -- has now grossed $64. 9-million domestically, according to boxofficemojo. com.

BOX OFFICE: Bombing 'Scott Pilgrim' plummets; 'Expendables' rolls on 2010

On the trail, Reagan had his practiced folksiness and Schwarzenegger had his action-hero schtick, driving around in a Humvee and dropping lines from his movies into his campaign appearances.

Move over Hollywood: The California Republican races are all about Silicon Valley By Sandhya Somashekhar 2010

A copy of Haaretz under his arm, Domb, fifty-five but tall and lean like a retired power forward, exuded that formidable action-hero model of Judaism not generally known back in the Queens of the 1950s.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010